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• Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

  John Braine

  Writing, Solitude, Needs

  John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything.

  Haider Ackermann

  Clothes, Seductive, Sensual

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• God is triune, and it is as triune that he is so good and desirable.

  Michael Reeves

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• The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, — but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Love Is, Glory, Neighbor

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist”, p.16, 北戴河出版

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• Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.

  Seamus Heaney

  Country, Mean, Home

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• I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.

  Norman Foster

  Distance, Space, Generosity

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• When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.

  Tim Worstall

  Jobs, People, Lobbying

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• It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.

  Peter Dicken

  Harbour, Attributes, Paradoxical

  Peter Dicken (1998). “Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy”, SAGE Publications Limited

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• Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.

  Koki Hirota

  Development, Territory, Investment

  "British Relations with China". Book by Irving Sigmund Friedman, p.138, 1940.

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• When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you.

  Jimmy Evans

  Romance, Spouse, Communicate

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• All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

  George Whitefield

  Heaven, Temptation, Affliction

  George Whitefield (1832). “Sermons”, p.758

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• The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.

  Mohammed Emami-Kashani

  Country, Islamic, Outcomes

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• Too many companies believe that all they must do is provide a 'neat' technology or some 'cool' product or, sometimes, just good, solid engineering. Nope. All of those are desirable (and solid engineering is a must), but there is much more to a successful product than that: understanding how the product is to be used, design, engineering, positioning, marketing, branding-all matter. It requires designing the Total User Experience.

  Donald A. Norman

  Believe, Successful, Technology

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• Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Imagination, Misery

  Samuel Johnson (1999). “Rasselas”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.

  Kim Paffenroth

  Intelligent, Ghouls, Zombie

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• It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Age, Might

  Edward Gibbon (1825). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.186

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• The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

  Anthony Albanese

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends, in addition to either a functioning market in which nobody can conclusively determine how well-off particular groups or individuals will be, or a central direction where a group organised for power determines it.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Principles, Groups, Economics

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 18 : The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics, 1973.

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• When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.

  John French Sloan

  Rocks, House, Tree

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• Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.

  Errico Malatesta

  Taken, Class, Organization

  "Anarchy". Pamphlet by Errico Malatesta, www.marxists.org. 1891.

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• There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.

  Florence King

  Sex, Loner, Slim

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because they are desirable in themselves. The common resistance to the collectivist tide should not be allowed to obscure the fact that the belief in integral freedom is based on an essentially forward-looking attitude and not on any nostalgic longing for the past or a romantic admiration for what has been.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Attitude, Men, Past

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.

  Peter Drucker

  Government, Evil, Needs

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.178, Transaction Publishers

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• The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

  Alain de Botton

  Drinking, Self, Drawing

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• Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.

  Tom Robbins

  Progress, Fundamentals, Evolution

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.69, Bantam

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